BIOA02H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Nikolaas Tinbergen, Sphex, Konrad Lorenz

• School: UTSC
• Department: Biological Sciences
• Course: BIOA02H3
• Professor: Ivana Stehlik

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Tinbe gen(cid:859)s fou questions: causation, development, adaptive function, evolutionary history. Who was tinbergen: niko tinbergen dutch ethologist, fou(cid:374)de(cid:396) of (cid:858)e(cid:454)pe(cid:396)i(cid:373)e(cid:374)tal(cid:859) etholog(cid:455) (cid:894)si(cid:373)ple, elega(cid:374)t, classic experiments, ex) digger wasp experiments, the digger wasp was paying attention to the pattern. Who was tinbergen: lorenz, tinbergen, von frisch. Nobel prize in medicine or psychology (1973) (recognition for animal behavior as a rigorous science) Who are those guys: konrad lorenz, founder, coined te(cid:396)(cid:373) (cid:858)etholog(cid:455)(cid:859, discovered and published most of the classical phenomena of ethology, fixed action pattern (fap) releasers. Innate releasing mechanism (irm: fa(cid:373)ous fo(cid:396) (cid:449)o(cid:396)k o(cid:374) (cid:858)i(cid:373)p(cid:396)i(cid:374)ti(cid:374)g(cid:859) i(cid:374) geese. Imprinting a type of pre-programmed learning in young animals during critical period of development: konrad lorenz, fixed action pattern (fap) Motor response that is initiated by an environmental stimulus: once initiated, behavior goes to completion. Waggle dance: tells the bees direction on how far to go, tells the(cid:373) (cid:395)ualit(cid:455) (cid:271)ut does(cid:374)(cid:859)t tell the(cid:373) the food.